Sengupta worked in the field of
continuum mechanics. He published more than one thousand research papers in national and international journals as an active guide of Ph.D. scholars. He was a fellow of the
National Academy of Sciences, India and
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He became the President of Mathematics Section of
Indian Science Congress Association in 1981 and 1996. He founded the Institute of Mechanics of Continua and Mathematical Sciences in 2004. ==References==